In 2007, the famous Nobel laureate in biology Worthen said in an interview with The Times that black people are an unevolved and complete human race, which caused an uproar at the time. Twelve years later, in 2019, the 91-year-old Worthen made the same inappropriate remarks that pushed him to the forefront again. Cold Spring Harbor Lab stripped him of all honorary titles of Honorary President, Honorary Professor, and Honorary Trustee.
Knowlson is a legend in the world of science. In 1953, at the age of 25, Worthen discovered the double helix structure of DNA, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Biology in 1962. Knowleson is also known as the father of DNA.
The DNA double helix structure is known as one of the most important scientific achievements of the 20th century, and together with Einstein's theory of relativity and Planck's quantum mechanics, it is known as the three most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.
Because the DNA double helix structure is a milestone in the history of biology, it opens a new era of biomolecules, and through the in-depth study of the DNA double helix structure, human beings have made one major breakthrough after another in the fields of medicine, biology, and genetics. These are all things that the 25-year-old Worthen brought to the world.
However, Worthen has a different side that no one else knows. In a 2007 interview with The Times, the 79-year-old Worthen said of Africa: "All our policies are based on the fact that they are intellectually on the same level as we are, but all tests show that this is not the case." ”
These words caused an uproar at the time. Worthen was criticized as a racist. But Worthen was unimpressed and insisted on publishing his research results, that is, black people lacked late genetic mutation fragments in their genes, so genetically, blacks belonged to a branch of early Homo sapiens, while everyone else was late Homo sapiens. In other words, they are not fully evolved.
Worthen's words put a lot of pressure on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he worked, and he had to stop all his duties to calm the condemnation of public opinion. At the same time, several biotech companies have stopped hiring him as a consultant, which has significantly reduced his income.
As a last resort, Worthen sold his Nobel Prize medal to Russia's richest man, Osmanov, for $4.755 million. He also became the first Nobel laureate in history to sell a medal.
But Worthen still went his own way. In 2019, he was asked this question again, and the reporter was worried that he would be unscrupulous, and deliberately asked very tactfully: Has your opinion of black intelligence changed?
But Worthen's answer was not at all. He said, "I would have liked there were, there are studies that show that nurtures are much more important than nature, but that's based on equal IQs." In IQ tests, blacks and whites have different IQ levels, which are genetically caused.
Seeing that twelve years have passed, Worthen is still "dead", and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory could not bear it anymore, and immediately said that "these remarks should be condemned", and immediately completed the cut with Worthen.
In 2007, they were only suspended, but Worthen still retained the titles of Honorary President, Emeritus Professor, and Honorary Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and this time the laboratory also took them all back, and he has never had anything to do with Worthen again.
Curiously, while there are many criticisms of Watson, few are from the scientific community, especially biology. I don't know if it's because they have a good relationship with Worthen or something else. The main criticism has come from political circles.
But Worthen had a good relationship with China, traveled to China many times throughout his life, and established the Worthen Life Science Center in China, where he found that the DNA of the Chinese is the most intelligent.